Posts Tagged: Trump Nuclear Weapons
Is the Prospect of Nuclear War Really a Risk of the Past?
In an impressively-prepared television documentary, The Fog of War, one-time US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara warned about the limits of rationality in world politics --...
Trump and North Korea: Back to Square One?
On April 27, 2018, Kim Jong-un crossed the demarcation line to South Korea to meet with Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president. As this was...
Can Donald Trump Be Trusted With America’s Nuclear Weapons?
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” (Albert Einstein, May 1946) Albert Einstein,...
The Deteriorating Trump Presidency: The Risk of Nuclear War
At a moment when the Trump presidency is plainly in steep decline, the ultimate hazard remains a nuclear incident. In essence, there are now various...
Would Donald Trump Actually Use the Bomb?
After the Helsinki Summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, certain fearful matters of “high politics” in American diplomacy are discussed only...
The US Must Maintain Nuclear Deterrence, Not Try to Disarm North Korea
"Deterrence is concerned with influencing the choices that another party will make, and doing it by influencing his expectations of how we will behave." -- Thomas...
Donald Trump Is a Danger to the US — and the World
"As to dangers arising from an irrational American president, the best protection is not to elect one." -- From a March 14, 1976 personal letter from General Taylor,...
Nuclear Weapons — and the Return of History
The latest iteration of the Trump administration’s security doctrine is the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). It follows the National Defense Strategy that was released in January and the National Security...
